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Your Mom is a Twihard: Target Audience

Aug 16th 2012

Popular young adult lit has plenty of adult fanatics, but remember, kids are meant to be the biggest fans.

Megan Garcia, 14, St. George

Fanatic about:The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, which follows a girl in the future who’s picked to battle other “tributes” to the death for entertainment.Total geek moment: Megan wouldn’t see The Hunger Games movie with her best friends until they both read the book. Same goes for her mom.If she were a character: “I’d keep close to the other tributes, because the Capitol might attack if I get too far away. I’d also hunt for my food, because eating berries is a really bad idea.”

Connor Biser, 9, Provo

Fanatic about: The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, which is about a young wizard who has adventures with his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.Total geek moment: Waving the stick that he pretends is a wand around to control the movement of leaves. Along with wands, Connor creates his own potion books, quills and scrolls. Sharing with friends: “At school, about five of us started this dueling club,” Connor says. “We have pencils we pretend are wands and have battles with them.”

Emma Black, 15, Murray

Fanatic about:The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, a book series about a group of kids chosen to go on missions for a secret society.Total geek moment: “Let’s just say it’s not a good idea to read books late at night. Your mom sees the light and takes them away. She hides them, and you don’t see them for a week.”Why she loves it: She got hooked on this middle-grade series through a Murray Library book club, and she can’t get enough of the adventure.